"We want to travel to Singapore to talk to Peter Lim ." A year ago, Dani Parejo made this request to the president of Valencia, Anil Murthy . Together with the rest of the captains, they wanted to explain to the owner the importance of preventing Mateu Alemany from leaving the club, because they feared that Marcelino would follow him. The request was not answered. It became the germ of a file that has been armed against the footballer and that now condemns him to exile.

The owners placed him on the market at a bargain price and they are going to give him the letter of freedom to sign with Villarreal. The official reason is his unsustainable salary in a low cost Valencia , but in the background lies the power of the captain, which erodes the owners .

Parejo was, along with Garay, the player who raised his voice the most against Marcelino's dismissal. With the Asturian on the bench he had lived his best two seasons of the nine he has been at the club; two happy years that culminated in collecting the Cup in Seville from the King. Even the doors of the selection were opened to him the year that was an essential: he played 56 of the 61 official matches . And in his prime, he lost the champion.

His position was to launch a direct challenge to the president to explain the reasons for the dismissal and to impose a silence in the dressing room that spoke loudly and caused League and UEFA fines. With the support of the stands, the power of the squad and its leadership were strengthened. They avoided the post-Marcelino purge and, especially, the departure of the delegate, Paco Camarasa. They even repudiated the newly recruited chief of medical services.

His stripes surfaced again as the goal of the Champions went away. "We can sign a defender, I think we should give more importance to the issue," he said publicly after Garay's injury.

Freedom letter

The signing did not come, but the humiliating European elimination against Atalanta and the Covid pandemic that forced to negotiate a salary cut in which there was a lot of tension between the squad and the presidency. By then, Parejo's departure was determined. The rubric put the need to lower the wage cost before the sports fiasco.

At 31 and a mediocre season finale, Meriton placed the captain among the transferable. Parejo has generated as many loves as hatred in the stands, but behind was the immature player who accumulated apologies for his adventures and who declared in rebellion in 2016 because he wanted to go to Sevilla. "The only difference with Gayà or Carlos Soler is that I was not born here," the midfielder likes to joke, who is moved by the chords of the Valencian Regional Anthem.

That is why Villarreal was first in line for a possible auction and Parejo listened. His relationship with the property was irrecoverable and all those he saved (delegate, doctor, physios ...) have already received his dismissal letter. The darts that Ferran Torres threw at him after going to City ended up being definitive for him to assimilate the end of a stage.

At 40 kilometers from what he considers his home, he fits into a club that meets his requirements to be reborn and seek the European Championship: proximity, European competition and assuming his salary . In addition, he will be under the orders of Unai Emery, with whom he already coincided for a year, and will have Francis Coquelin as a squire , whom Valencia also put up for sale as a contestatory and will sign for Villarreal for 12 million.

To the two bargains fished in Mestalla, Emery added yesterday the transfer of Kubo from Madrid, which draws a luxury midfield as cheap as it is unexpected.

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